Irked Tabarez hits out at media

A clearly irked Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez refused to speak about his World Cup semi-final team line-up on Monday after accusing media of gatecrashing their training session.

The South Americans take on the Netherlands Tuesday and have injury doubts over captain Diego Lugano, who is struggling with a ligament strain.

Tabarez is already without midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro who has a bruised right foot as well as influential striker Luis Suarez, who misses the game after being red-carded for his deliberate handball against Ghana.

Defender Jorge Ciro Fucile is also suspended.

Throughout the tournament Tabarez has tended to make public his team a day ahead of their game, but when asked about Lugano and his line-up on Monday, he instead lashed out at the media.

“I have no intention of telling you my line-up. We usually do but our plans have changed,” he said.

“Our training session was supposed to be behind closed doors as are the FIFA regulations and we assumed this was the agreement between all parties and the journalists.

“But some correspondents wanted to play at being war correspondents so information about our team and tactics have been made public.

“They breached the rules. The training session was behind closed doors but some journalists took pictures, filmed it and revealed news.”